EEASTBIi. 661 



W. TcKEEsTAN, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul ; W. Siiseeia, 

 Altai; E. Ttjkkesxan, Hi; E. Siberia, Ussiiri ; Japan, Hakodate 

 (Fryer), 1 c? , 2 $ , Oiwake (Pryer), 1 $, Tokio (Maries), 2 $, 

 Yokohama (Jo?ias,Pryer),3 $ ; CoEEA,Gensari (Ito, Leech), 1 J ,1 $ ; 

 N. China, Pekin, 1 J; Afghanistan, Kandahar (Swinhoe), 1 $; 

 Beloochistan, Quetta (Hurray), 2 cJ; Maueitius (BeJce), 1 d type 

 pardalina. Exjp. 22-28 miJlim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 167 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 190, pi. 248. 

 f. 1. 



Keddish brown ; dorsal line darker, pale-edged ; subbasal line 

 faiutly darker ; spiracular line broad, pale yellow enclosing a fine 

 brown line; 1st two pairs of prolegs absent, Eood-plant: Con- 

 volvuhis arvensis. 7-9. 



6001. Erastria deleta. 



Agrophila deleta, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p 190 (1877); Oberlh. 



]&t. Ent. vi. p. 89, pi. 3. f. 5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 233. 

 Agrophila jlavonitens, Aust. Le Nat. i. jj. 156(1880) ; Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. 



p. 89, pi. 3. f. 4. 

 Emmelia algira, Oberth. Et. Ent. \i. p. 90, pi. 2. f. 2 (1881). 



(algira). Head and thorax olive-ochreoiis ; tegulae with black 

 23atches ; vertex of thorax suffused with black ; tarsi brownish 

 with pale rings ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Eore wing olive- 

 ochreous ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial black spots on costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform usually present, small, round, black ; a black 

 fascia below the cell from base to medial or postmedial lines ; a more 

 or less developed black fascia on basal part of inner margin and bars 

 at the antemedial and medial lines, which are very faint, olive ; 

 postmedial line black, from vein 6 to inner margin, expanding on 

 inner side into black patches at discal and submedian folds, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; faint traces of a pale sinuous subterminal line ; cilia 

 black with more or less ochreous below apex. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous with a brown line near 

 base ; the underside ochreous. 



Ab. 1. deleta. Fore wing with the black markings replaced by 

 faint brownish markings except the black postmedial line, which is 

 slight and more or less obsolete. 



Ab. 2. Jlavonitens. Fore wing without any black markings ; 

 rather yellow with the markings very faint olive. 



Hub. Algeria, Biskra (Eaton), 1 c? • Exp. 22-24 millim. The 

 three forms were aU taken together by Mr. L. W. Kothschild, 



6002. Erastria fascialis. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Tar ache fascialis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 315 (1894). 



Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi white 

 except at tips ; frons whitish ; patagia with yellow fascia on outer 



